Sunday, February 13, 2005

Let me count the ways.

Fred started it, Alan David Doane ran with it, and then Mike goes and turns it into a meme. Well, knowing a fun bandwagon to jump on when I see it, I had to join in, too, so I humbly present to you, in no particular order, The 110 Reasons* I Love Comics (because I refuse to submit to The Man's limit of 100):

The Marvel Family (and their assorted friends and villains)

Superman

The 60s Batman TV Show

Starman by James Robinson

“The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man”

Getting issues of March of Comics from Paul at Standard Shoes

Wednesdays at Nostalgia Ink during high school and college (Hi, Bruce and Mary, if you’re out there somewhere)

Jack “King” Kirby

Stern and Byrne on Captain America

Bone

The first season of “Lois and Clark”

Wolfman and Perez on The New Teen Titans

Animal Man by Grant Morrison

Steranko’s brief but perfect Captain America run

Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham

Strangers in Paradise from Volume 1 up through the High School story in Volume 3

Milk and Cheese (MERV GRIFFIN!!!!) and other works by Evan Dorkin

The Maze Agency by Mike W. Barr

The Sesame Street segment about the letter S, starring Superman

DC reprints by Whitman, available in three-packs in drug, book and department stores everywhere

Dr. Doom

Mark Gruenwald on Captain America (pre Cap-Wolf, anyway)

Steve Ditko

Batman: The Animated Series

Carl Barks

Superman: The Movie & Superman II

Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Peanuts, featuring Good Ol’ Charlie Brown

Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends

Sarah Dyer's Action Girl Comics

JLA/JSA crossovers

DC 100 Pagers

Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

JoAnna Cameron as Isis

Gorilla covers

“The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck” by Don Rosa (D.U.C.K.)

The Dark Phoenix Saga

The fact that superhero action figures of the 80s were about the same size and could be used interchangeably (Dr. Doom Vs. the JLA! The Spider-Man/Firestorm feud!)

The Phantom Blot

Dr. Doom traps The Fantastic Four in The Village, sort of (FF 84-87)

The Skull House storyline (Captain America 290-300)

Byrne on Fantastic Four

The Essential Marvel books

The Adventures of Captain Marvel starring Tom Tyler

Watching Batman: The Movie in French on the CBC when I was 4

Crisis on Infinite Earths

John Romita drawing Spider-Man

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

The Aim toothpaste give-away comic with Spider-Man and the Green Goblin

Geek Miscellany

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